Child Protective Services Fail

We don't know anything about a place called Berwyn, Illinois except that apparently it is a place where you can be totally insane, hoard two hundred animals in your small home, keep your children virtual prisoners until they become fatally ill and no one will do a thing.

Someone (perhaps the mother) called officials when a fourteen-year-old boy named Matthew Degner was 'unresponsive' at the squalid home. He was taken to a hospital where he later died from bronchopneumonia.

Matthew had three teenaged sisters who were also sick and removed from the home.

They had lived there for eight years, never went to school, were severely malnourished and had never had medical care.

Officials found over 200 animals including cats, monkeys, birds, raccoons, squirrels, dogs and rabbits living in the home. Most of them were mean and sick.

Needless to say, the 1100 square foot building was a disgusting, feces-covered hell hole.

Obviously, one is hoping the mother will be punished to the extent that her mental illness (whatever the hell it is) will allow. This is one time we'd like to turn someone over to Rick Perry.